It’s been amply established by now that Devin Nunes’ much-hyped memo detailing supposed abuses of power by the FBI and Justice Department was a big, fat dud. It’s shot through with inaccuracies and omissions, and actually proves that the investigation into Russia’s hacking of the election was based on more than just Christopher Steele’s dossier. […]

A lot of things have been said about the memo crafted by House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes that supposedly claims the FBI and Justice Department engaged in ghastly abuses of power during the investigation into Russia’s effort to hack the election. The FBI thinks it presents an inaccurate and incomplete picture of the investigation. […]

For Donald Trump and anyone else whose standard response to anything that even suggests Russia hacked the presidential election is “(noun) (verb) FAKE NEWS!”, the last 48 hours have been rather uncomfortable, to say the least. Not only did we get solid confirmation that Russian-flavored Facebook ads ran in Michigan and Wisconsin, but the Senate […]

We haven’t seen much of Reince Priebus since Sunday. If you’ll recall, hours after we learned that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer in the summer of 2016, Priebus dismissed the whole thing as a false flag ginned up by the same people who helped Christopher Steele compile a dossier that suggested Russia […]

By now, you know about the explosive dossier authored by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, which claims to outline evidence that Donald Trump was severely compromised by Russia. While American intelligence has yet to confirm allegations that Trump engaged in graphic sex acts–including “golden showers”–they have been able to confirm a number of Steele’s […]

By now, you probably know that House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes didn’t really discover that Donald Trump’s campaign communications were incidentally scraped during foreign surveillance by American intelligence. Rather, two White House staffers gave Nunes that information. But about 24 hours earlier, the BBC uncovered something that, in the long run, may be equally […]

The standard response from Donald Trump or his minions when questions are asked about Trump’s potential ties to Russia has been “(noun) (verb) fake news.” But in the last 72 hours, that response has looked less and less credible. First, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was caught red-handed lying about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to […]

There has been a lot of Sturm und Drang surrounding Donald Trump since he took office. For all of that, very little has been heard in the first three weeks of his presidency about the prospect that Russia not only had a thumb on the scale for the Donald, but may have actually compromised him. However, less […]

Donald Trump has spent most of the last week kicking and screaming that the intelligence community is trying to cut the ground out from under him by allowing the “golden showers” dossier to be leaked. Well, outgoing CIA director John Brennan is having none of it. Brennan told Trump–and the nation–that by making such comments, the […]

On Saturday, Donald Trump took a brief break from his sliming of Congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis to once again claim that all of the talk that he may have been compromised by Russia was bogus. INTELLIGENCE INSIDERS NOW CLAIM THE TRUMP DOSSIER IS "A COMPLETE FRAUD!" @OANN — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) […]

What little legitimacy Donald Trump and Mike Pence may have had should have evaporated in the space of a few hours on Thursday. First, word got out that a number of top American intelligence officials had warned their Israeli counterparts not to share any classified information with Trump unless they got assurances Trump had not been compromised […]